bootstrapping gnat GCC on amd64

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Tue May 5 02:24:57 UTC 2009


On Tue, 5 May 2009, xorquewasp at googlemail.com wrote:

> On 2009-05-04 20:54:46, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> Yes, you can look at my lang/gnat port to find its
>> bootstrap compiler.  I would recommend making a binary
>> bootstrap compiler on the earliest version of FreeBSD
>> amd64 as you can.  If you use 8.0-current for instance,
>> others will not be able to build the port on 7.x.
>
> Earliest version of FreeBSD that fully supports this
> hardware is 7.2, so I personally can't go back to an
> earlier release than that.

Keep good notes - maybe someone else can do it once you
have the procedure down and working ;-)

-- 
DE


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